The Observer, March 2020 Girl, Woman, Other Bernardine Evaristo Penguin, £8.99, 464pp (paperback) What’s left to say about Bernardine Evaristo’s brilliant Booker-winning novel, other than it’s a shame it had to share the award with […]
Emirates Open Skies, March 2020 In Esi Edugyan’s 2011 novel Half Blood Blues, black jazz musician Hieronymous Falk is arrested and incarcerated in a German concentration camp. The follow-up, Washington Black, features the titular character […]
Metro, March 2020 Elvis Costello Liverpool Olympia ★★★★✩ WHEN Elvis Costello was a teenager, his bus journey to school in Liverpool used to take him past the slightly weathered — putting it politely — venue […]
The National, March 2020 Many reading this will have tried to take a picture of Burj Khalifa. And at the end of every year, when the Instagram reckoning is published to great interest, the still-staggering […]
The National, March 2020 It’s a photograph that could have been taken anywhere in the world, and yet is intrinsically Kurdish. A man sits at his well-appointed desk in his business wear. Next to him […]